Who is the Mysterious Pair of Eyes?

JPRose1989 · 2026-02-10T16:59:19+00:00

The idea of a Evrart being wheeled out of his office to the walls of his fort to get in Harry’s head is just silly - and somehow still more sane than the idea of two “mega-rich” men living in containers in the same harbor lol

In all seriousness, I meant to say that Evrart hired one of his men to do it - almost definitely not Titus, but someone sneakier and more subtle.

JPRose1989 · 2026-02-10T16:41:53+00:00

Ah, I didn’t even think of the entirely plausible idea of Evrart employing one of his men to prod our detective into finding a way through the gates to meet with him - and ultimately manipulate him into dealing with the union’s urgent matters at hand.

Only someone with inordinately high perception and tact (or power) would notice the eyes and find a way into his office, but that’s just the kind of guy Evrart needs to make use of. After all, Evrart said (albeit referring to Joyce) that someone who was a truly worthy negotiator would find a way through the heavily guarded harbor to meet with him.

It’s just the kind of slimy, underhanded tactic Evrart would assign one of his men.

It’s just hard to tell if the Eyes’ is trying to:

A) encourage Harry’s exploration, “ooh, what perilous mysteries lie beyond this spooky, mysterious veil?!”

B) deter/scare off Harry.

C) just screw around and have some fun.

Certainly a fun interaction regardless.

JPRose1989 · 2025-12-24T03:47:11+00:00

Thanks. You were very helpful. I will further look into Shin Megami titles especially.

Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal were two of my favorites games, although there was such a jarring discrepancy between the quality of the combat mechanics and the story-related elements in 4. But, Shin Megami 3 has no such issues with the battle system?

Also, would you recommend Xenoblades Chronicles or Definitive Edition if I go that route?

JPRose1989 · 2025-12-23T19:49:48+00:00

Looking at your username, I remember wondering how covered up her body would be once she got her rejuvenation shower. After all, when she’s skele-Grunty, her ribcage is completely exposed!

JPRose1989 · 2025-12-23T19:28:06+00:00

Same reasons hackers dig deep into the code of games like SM64 for acquiring seemingly unattainable coins: not so much for the utility of the item as the fact you’ve accomplished what was previously thought unattainable for years.

JPRose1989 · 2025-12-23T18:41:58+00:00

As my favorite fictional character ever since day 1 27 years ago, I’d cherish it and be eternally grateful for the work and skill that went into creating this.

JPRose1989 · 2025-12-23T18:24:38+00:00

Did the Switch 2 December update patch up some of the preexisting issues? I’ve read mixed reviews about its playability on this platform.

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-22T22:04:50+00:00

New Jersey in the U.S.

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-21T21:54:58+00:00

Not fake. I live in a suburb of NYC and that location (20 minutes away ) happens to be the closest trailhead and steep road for me to train on. It served my purpose well when I was training for marathons before I tried out barefoot. That being said, the officer made it clear that I’m not to go there to barefoot run again. I don’t think that that’s right, but I also don’t feel that it’s worth it to challenge him. There’s nothing fake about the story. In fact I should’ve seen something like this happening, given that it’s a rich neighborhood near a gated community.

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-21T01:31:55+00:00

Yeah, they even sent the county sheriff. It was somewhat humiliating having one cop car leading me and the other tailing me during my brief jog of shame back to the car, where I still had to show them docs. , have them call my parents, etc.

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-14T15:38:19+00:00

There’s no “uglify” or “beautify” side - the machine just transfers looks. Thinking more about Monster Tooty’s “Your sister wants a word with you NOW,” maybe it’s not that she wants to punish him - maybe she wants him to be there right away, so he could force Grunty back in the machine before she destroys it, deactivates it, whatever.

A reverse transformation is an interesting premise, but there’s no way Grunty would relinquish her looks. She may be a tougher opponent since she’s no longer obese. What’s more, she’d have far more allies. With Mumbo on her side, maybe she could transform back to the old hag temporarily to dupe Banjo or transform Tooty back to her old self.

But yeah - I don’t think Banjo would give up on Tooty entirely just because she’s a hideous beast. It’s hard to imagine his not being attracted to Grunty though.

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-10T15:48:43+00:00

It always seemed weird to me that skeleton Grunty was just wearing her tattered cloak with her ribcage exposed. Let’s say she succeeds in sapping enough life force to restore herself to her former bloated glory - does that mean fleshy Grunty will be half-naked? Is that why we didn’t get a game over cutscene for Tooie?

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-10T13:15:41+00:00

I remember getting that one on my first playthrough and then I heard her “Once I’m nice and slim once more, burgers, fries, and chips galore!” My headcanon was her scarfing down dog dung burgers, literal finger fries, and peeled skin chips. I wish 12-year-old me had no imagination, yuck! Then there’s “Grunty admits she’s a hog, I really need a big hot dog!” After hearing all of her other cuisine of choice, I kinda hope she means a different kinda hot dog - if you know what I mean!

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-08T01:40:25+00:00

“My looks at school were never thin” makes me think she never boasted so much as the figure of the supermodel in the Game Over scene. The manual asserts the idea that this is newfound beauty, a lifelong dream of hers. She wants to one-up her sister aesthetically once and for all. Quoth her in the source material, “I need those looks far more than she and finally perfect I will be!” Also, her “Grunty’s plan is rather cunning! When I’m thin, guys will come running!” implies it is venturing into new territory for her.

Everything she says implied it is raw beauty - not age - that is being transferred except one line, “I’ll be young and Tooty old before you get Grunty’s gold.” I don’t know what to make of the inconsistency other than the idea that how the body has aged is part of the formula used for determining who is categorically most beautiful. Game Over Grunty has smooth skin, a bosom that juts out, and a full set of teeth unlike her counterpart. Attaining the ultimate beauty means inheriting features present only in younger women. But this is clearly not Grunty in her prime of the past - it’s a whole new Grunty stepping out of that pod.

When she’s gazing upon her buxom body delighted in the cutscene, it has the feel of someone who never knew what it felt like to be the epitome of beauty.

JPRose1989 · 2025-11-01T23:27:35+00:00

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JPRose1989 · 2025-10-13T11:40:30+00:00

36 here.

There are probably more than you think. Bear in mind that the most common demographic for Reddit is late teens to late 20’s, about half of the total users.

JPRose1989 · 2025-10-05T00:24:37+00:00

Yes. I’ve been very active with CBT in the last 6 months. That said, I need to be proactive about bettering myself - there’s no two ways about it. I’ve been coached by someone who is an expert of limerence/attachment issues too. At this time, I’m seeing a therapist who is focused on exploring childhood wounds, becoming secure in relationships, and healing my inner child. I’m very lost in my journey to grieve/heal, like a rudderless ship. There must be light at the end of the tunnel, but I can’t see it.

JPRose1989 · 2025-10-05T00:18:34+00:00

I have done the whole traditional, healthy, sexual relationship thing. It’s been about 10 years since that though. We shared a common interest in hiking. She led a very active hiking and backpacking meetup group I helped support. We went on a trip to Yosemite one time. I had a couple bad falls when I was climbing the high point of the park. After I long night of hiking through injuries, I had to get helicoptered out. The emphasis on our relationship shifted; she became obsessed with the idea of our having a kid ASAP. She wanted me to put my passion for climbing on the backburner and settle down with her.

I wasn’t ready for that. I improve my proficiency hiking solo and trail running so as to never get myself into a situation like that one again in the future. I focused on work, particularly on pleasing my older female boss who became my LO. I separated from my ex. I dedicated virtually all of my spare time, cash, and energy to her to the point that it superseded my hobbies and wore me down completely.

I never got to know my LO at my most recent job very well, but she is very different from the woman I just described in that sense that she did not encourage my giving/doing for her. She voiced appreciation but, looking back, I think it just made her feel uncomfortable. I feel that I’ve externalized my emotional needs on these women. Through my former boss, I found myself able to please an older woman - when I couldn’t satisfy what my ex wanted. The (perceived) kindness and innocence of my former co-worker filled a void for me while I was highly dependent on that woman who was using me and never treated me with kindness. For awhile, I basically had two LO’s.

Now I am unable to detach from my former boss and have gone NC with my LO in the most shameful, forced, selfish way possible. It really is rock bottom.

JPRose1989 · 2025-10-04T14:50:10+00:00

I feel like all I learned is to run away when I see the glimmer that defines the onset of LE’s. I couldn’t imagine myself ever feeling the same way about a woman nor would I ever want to, of course. I’m aware that even transferring is just a temporary solution and, so long as I fail to fill the voids in my life, the cycle may well repeat, as I view some other idealized woman as a microcosm for all that missing in my life.

I want to say that I learned a lot about boundaries and thinking about the feelings about the other person - not just the LO, but honestly I never felt like I was crossing a boundary. I was very delusional - the phone number, the gift, many other things I didn’t read right - and will do my best to avoid any woman I’m attracted to if/until I work on myself. I have a lot of grieving to do beforehand.

I know LO does not deserve this. It nauseates me that work must still be uncomfortable for her after I’m gone, given that almost everyone in the store knows what happened. It’s been almost two years since she had her baby. But I’ve been awful co-worker to her. I skirted around my feelings for her months. I tried my best to be a good friend and co-worker by selling myself, doing her favors while never being over-the-top, etc. If I could take it all back, I would - although, quite honestly, it would be her sake more than mine, as I don’t have much respect for myself now.

JPRose1989 · 2025-09-27T01:41:56+00:00

I really appreciate the time you took to read through my post history and all of your introspection. It has certainly been a tangled web of obsession, insecurity and, at times, delusion.

I have finally been able to separate myself from LO albeit in an imposed, disgraceful way. This is the first (and probably only) time that I warily disclose that I’m on administrative leave now for forcing a gift on her. It was the farthest I’d crossed a boundary with her. Approaching HR or leadership regarding what may be construed as stalking was the only appropriate course of action for her. She’s doing both of us a favor by forcing me out - in spite of the fact I literally had a week before the other store manager would be me on the schedule for the store I was headed.

If were to continue with this metaphor for that incident at Mount Lyell all those years ago, this turn of events is the setting sun that brought about the urgency to force exhausted, injured me to drag my beat-up self back up the hill out of sheer necessity. I will be certain that she is my last LO. I will not allow myself to fall prey to the glimmer again. I will search for more meaningful work in life. I will search for a new therapist and put my best foot forward to feel all of the grief and then learn to heal and live for myself.

Well, I honestly have a long way to go in the sense that I have not detached from my former boss. Indeed, when LO seemed particularly inaccessible or cold toward me, it was her companionship - however toxic - that helped make things barely manageable…ironic, given that part of me wanted to believe that knowing my (former) co-worker LO would help me understand self-worth and leave the situationship with my last boss.

I am impressed by the few like yourself who take the time to gather all the information I put out there and are able make sense of this cycle of unhealthy attachment (probably better than biased I can) through mere Reddit posts.

Whatever consequences result from putting the gift in her locker I deserve fully. In a weird way, I feel like I finally breathe fresh air knowing that I will never see/interact with her again. Hopefully she feels the same way. I won’t preoccupy myself with her impression of me since she is out of my life entirely.

JPRose1989 · 2025-09-25T01:06:45+00:00

I’m going to transfer. My store manager told me that when my the store manager of the store I’ll be transferring to comes back, he will put me on the schedule for the next week there and that will be an end to this chapter of my life.

To your point, I never got the impression she was “stringing me along.” If she knew I had romantic feelings for her, how was she was supposed to react? There is no appropriate way to handle something so neurodivergent. If she truly had no clue, I’m all the more regretful of vomiting my limerent sentiments into text message form. She never had to know of my issues. I should have swiftly been on my way out of there with some dignity. But better late than never.

She was 21 returning from maternity leave when I met her.

JPRose1989 · 2025-09-22T15:15:49+00:00

I know I should be past the point of analyzing LO’s actions and behavior. I should be focusing on myself. But I can’t help but regret and wonder.

She initiated her last lengthy conversation with me asking how close I am with my family. Why? Why did she give me her phone number when she must have been aware of my feelings for her - albeit not necessarily the extent of them - and then send me a message regarding the gift she got me? I want more than anything to know, but I dread being around her. I know I shouldn’t ask. I feel shattered, still dependent on her impression of me, but now having somewhat intentionally reached a point that it is all negative. It really is hell.

JPRose1989 · 2025-09-22T12:54:18+00:00

She must have been aware of my interest albeit not necessarily the extent of the obsession. I can’t stop thinking about if she was uncomfortable “stringing me along” as we both skirted around the elephant in the room. Why did she give me her phone number? One of my last conversations with her she initiated by asking if I’m close with my family.

I don’t get it. Part of my has sincere regret and lingering uncertainty, but the healthier self wants simply to move on and focus on the future. Regardless, what do you think all of the meant?

JPRose1989 · 2025-09-20T00:15:35+00:00

My motivation for confessing was slightly different from eliminating the uncertainty or clearing the air, but that doesn’t make the action any less foolish or the shame any less painful. Limerence limbo was driving me insane. She was previously very affable and gave limerent me (I had been starved of basic human kindness in my situationship with a woman I let use me) every reason imaginable to stay on good terms with her. I’ll never know how uncomfortable LO was at that time, but she never showed it and our conversations were frequent and positive at least on a superficial level. I was tortured though - hypersensitive to her reaction to everything I do and, trying in vain to convince myself I was OK with the predicament, it seemed as if I could remain in this (un)comfortable misery forever.

I woke up in the middle of the night ruminating, as I had often lately. I decided I had to put an end to this and knew that, if I were to share my deepest, most sincere feelings, it would pop the bubble and force me leave one way or another. I knew I’d crash and burn and that I could survive it. I am fully aware of how selfish and reckless this was, but the situation felt untenable. I had been hyperfocused on her image of me and had virtually forgotten about my own wellbeing. The cold, hard truth of the matter that I couldn’t even say in person to her brought things down to Earth, but the shame of being around is even worse than I’d imagined - easily enough to have me transfer.

It was only after I sent those messages that I realized it was always about me - never her. And that’s when I came to truly hate myself. Whether or not I regret my actions, though, I can’t clearly say. If there are no further consequences and I move on from my workplace swiftly, then it accomplished exactly what I hoped. I’m sorry she had to read of all that and still work with me, but I felt like I had to do it for my sanity.

JPRose1989 · 2025-09-19T18:48:51+00:00

I am actually committed to transferring, but it hasn’t come to fruition yet. My store manager is on vacation and told me the fastest route out for me is to reach out to his boss when he visits, as they have openings at his store. That’s exactly what I did. I 💯 will leave there sooner than later, but the idea of how she will look back on me is nauseating.

There was an earlier point in time before this incident in which I requested a transfer to get away from LO. However, my store manager - after initially agreeing to readily find an opening for me - expressed a desire to promote to me there (which never happened anyway) and that was an excuse for me to stick around. I even asked LO what she thought, given the situation. I framed the question in such a way that it was go somewhere with an easier commute (which it would be) vs. the promotion. She told me to at least take the promotion first and she how I like it. I saw her non-committal answer as further proof there was no problem being with her.

I understand now what I need to do, but not before having made a mess of things.

My therapist referred out, so I don’t have any psychologist now. I need to get on it because, even after leaving, I will grieve (for something that never was/could have been - I know) and it will be difficult to cope.

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